L.A. County Sheriff's Department

At a community meeting in Duarte hosted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department last week, one name surfaced often. "I'm here because of Kate Steinle's death and because I care about illegal aliens being cut loose and let out on the streets," Orange resident Mike McGetrick told a panel of sheriff's officials who are pondering a shift in policy at the county's jails. "When is the next American citizen going to be murdered?" When a five-time deportee with a history of drug-related felonies was charged in the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier this month, a debate that had been simmering for years again...

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